WEBVTT REPORTER: THE FAMILY FIGUREDTHEY HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO ENJOYTHE ZOO SINCE THE BABY WASN'TDUE UNTIL MOTHER'S DAY.LITTLE DREA HUBBARD DECIDEDOTHERWISE.TURNING A ROUTINE VISIT INTO THETRIP OF A LIFETIME.>> I WAS HAVING CONTRACTIONS ANDIT WAS GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSERTOGETHER AND I WAS TELLING MYHUSBAND, OK IT'S TIME TO GET OFFTHE TRAIN AND LET'S GO TO THEEMERGENCY ROOM, BUT HE KEPTTELLING ME I'M OVEREXAGGERATING.REPORTER: BUT KYMICA HUBBARDWASN'T OVER EXAGGERATING.JUST MOMENTS LATER, WHILE IN THEBATHROOM WITH HER MOM, SHE KNEWTHE BABY WAS ALMOST HERE.>> I JUST YELLED HER NAME LIKE,MOM, COME ON. SO SHE CAME INTO THE OTHERRESTROOM AND GOT ME.>> SHE WAS LIKE, MAYBE YOU CANMAKE IT TO THE CAR.AND I SAID, I DON'T THINK I CANMAKE IT TO THE CAR, MOM.REPORTER: THE FAMILY STARTEDMAKING THEIR WAY TOWARD THEIRCAR, BUT DIDN'T GET FAR.>> WE GOT HALF WAY UP THE HILLAND MY WATER BROKE.I WAS LIKE, HER HEAD, HER HEAD.AND HE WAS LIKE, WHAT DO YOUMEAN HER HEAD?AND I WAS LIKE, HER HEAD, HERHEAD.AND HE WAS LIKE, HER HEAD?AND THEN HE FELT DOWN THERE ANDHE WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH SHE'SHAVING THE BABY.REPORTER: HUSBAND JUSTIN HUBBARDJUMPED INTO ACTION DELIVERINGHIS BABY GIRL IN FRONT OF ACROWD OF PEOPLE.>> I GLANCED UP AND WAS LIKE, OHMY GOSH.LOOK AT ALL THESE PEOPLE.REPORTER: IN HIS ARMS LITTLEDREA HUBBARD >> SHE WAS CRYING.YOU KNOW, COOING.AND IT WAS JUST THE MOSTBEAUTIFUL THING THAT A MAN CANEVER SEE.I MEAN IT WAS A TRULY BLESSEDEXPERIENCE.REPORTER: WHILE THE ZOO ISN'T ANIDEAL PLACE TO HAVE A BABY, THEHUBBARD'S SAY THEY WOULDN'T HAVECHANGED A THING.>> IT WAS A CRAZY EXPERIENCE.I MEAN, I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FORTHE WORLD. REPORTER: EVEN THOUGH DREA WASEARLY, SHE WEIGHED FIVE POUNDS,FIVE OUNCES.BOTH ARE HAPPY AND HEALTHY ANDTHE FAMILY SAYS THEY WILL BEBACK HOME TOMORROW.BABY DREA HUBBARD ALREADY HAS ANICKNAME, POOH BEAR.REPORTING LIVE AT THE HENRYDOORLY ZOO AND AQUARIAM, ALEX

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Updated: 12:17 PM EDT Apr 25, 2017

OMAHA, Neb. —

The family figured they had plenty of time to enjoy an Omaha zoo since their baby wasn't due until Mother's Day. Little Drea Hubbard decided otherwise.

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"I was having contractions and it was getting closer and closer together and I was telling my husband, 'OK, it's time to get off the train and let's go to the emergency room,' but he kept telling me I'm over-exaggerating," mother Kymica Hubbard said.

She wasn't exaggerating. Just moments later, while in the bathroom with her mother, Kymica Hubbard knew the baby was almost there.

"I just yelled her name, like, 'Mom! Come on.' So she came into the other restroom and got me," Hubbard said. "She was, like, 'Maybe you can make it to the car.' And I said, 'I don't think I can make it to the car, Mom.'"

The family started making its way toward the car but didn't get far.

"We got halfway up the hill and my water broke," Hubbard said.

That's when she turned to her husband, Justin Hubbard.

"I was, like, 'Her head, her head.' And he was, like, 'What do you mean, her head?' And I was, like, 'Her head, her head!' And he was, like, 'Her head?' And then he felt down there and he was, like, 'Oh my gosh, she's having the baby!'"

Justin Hubbard jumped into action and delivered his baby girl in front of a crowd of people.

"I kind of glanced up and was, like, 'Oh my gosh, look at all these people,'" Justin Hubbard said.

And then, in his arms was little Drea Hubbard.

"She was crying. You know, cooing. And it was just the most beautiful thing that a man can ever see. I mean, it was a truly blessed experience," Justin Hubbard said. "It was a crazy experience. I mean, I wouldn't trade it for the world."

Even though Drea was born early, she weighed 5 pounds, 5 ounces. The mother and baby were both happy and healthy. The family said it will be back home Tuesday.Baby Drea Hubbard has already been given a nickname: Pooh bear.